What if philosophers got it wrong? What if the basic notion that we are hard-wired for narcissism and self-interest is not as true our our forefathers adamantly ascribed? I’m deep into The Empathic Civilization, a profound work of human understanding. Jeremy Rifkin suggests that science is now calling into question just about all of our …
An Empathic Civilization
Prepare to geek out for about 10 minutes. ;-P This is a video by author Jeremy Rifkin and explores the idea of empathy. He makes the assertion, based on neuroscience that we are soft-wired with something called mirror neurons. Mirror neurons allow us to construct a sense of empathy by recreating in our own brain …
The Chaos Of The Mind
I think neuroscience is going to play a huge part in reshaping our understanding of what it means to be human. One of the central arguments I make in Discovering the God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole New Christianity is where we locate the problem. Historically we’ve cast the problem outward onto Satan or God. I …
Admitting Our Limitations
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Marilynne Robinson www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party This is a very interesting video of Jon Stewart interviewing Marilynne Robinson. She explores the tension between science and religion and suggests that scientists are not being honest about their own science. …
The Math of Love
The following post is directly cut from Andrew Sullivan. I found it remarkably interesting but I don’t know if it accurately represents love. In some ways it seems like pragmatism. What do you think? ——————————————————————————————– A Spanish mathematician crunches the numbers on successful relationships: The results of the mathematical analysis showed when both members of …
Making God In Our Image
I have to chalk this one up to, “As if we didn’t already know that.” But it helps to have a little scientific research to validate the idea. Ryan Sager offers up a neat little experiment from a guy named Nicholas Epley at the University of Chicago. Ryan describes the experiment below. Epley asked different …
The Evolution Of Theory
This is an interesting video for all the wrong reasons. It’s a response of a group of people (Campus Crusade for Christ, Alliance Defense Fund, and Answers In Genesis) attempting to defend against the celebration the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. At 3:00 into the video, Kirk says: “We’re working…to get (50,000) …
Manufacturing Emotion
Popout [See Embedded Video - It's hilarious] What is our fascination with emotion? In this seven minute prank video, two friends engage in the second part of a prank war. The set up is amazingly elaborate and the payoff was perfect. It elicited exactly the emotional response the prankster was looking for. Watching it seemed …
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Are you adding your “bit” of value to the Kingdom, or are you letting the expert do it for you? I’m in the process of listening to the audiobook Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe. It’s one of those rare books that offers a compelling look at a phenomenon as it is happening. Crowdsourcing looks at how …
The Goesintas & Goesoutas
I’m not really a science guy but I do love it when I see it show up in nature. Science has a way of making perfect sense, reminding me that it still knows what it is doing. And one that I find more and more intriguing is Newton’s 3rd law of motion. It states, “For …
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